After a bad couple of days TechCrunch is suddenly flying is sub 1 second load times, even under heavy mid week traffic. We’ll be adding some of the third party stuff back in (sphere and mybloglog) and keeping an eye on things.
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Oddly ironic. I clicked over to see how fast things were and got…
Doh!
… and two minutes later it was back and flying.
Does seem faster — any plans to share any tweaks or tuning?
You’ve obviously moved stuff around because it’s broken the Sponsors sidebar on here. Complaining it can’t find: http://techcrunch.com/wp-content/themes/techcrunch/sponsors.php
Ditto Mike, no sponsors here. TechCrunch still looks a little weird… I guess it’s the missing bits that haven’t been turned back on yet.
Anyway, Mike A, it would be very interesting to hear what changes were made to speed the site up. And did you ever consider moving to Movable Type, which seems to be marketed as the solution for blogs like yours?
Maybe MediaTemple are having a good day today… It might be slow again tomorrow… You never know with those guys, especially if using the grid (I know your not, but).
What hosting plan are you using at (mt)? Are you running the new SQL containers?
If anyone is curious about what changed, I made a fairly detailed post about what we (Media Temple) did to normalize the performance on the box over here.